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You Can't Create a Weirder Candidate to Run Against Than James Talarico

You Can't Create a Weirder Candidate to Run Against Than James Talarico

Editor’s Note: Join us in the fight against the radical left today and support our reporting as President Trump continues to usher in the Golden...

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Kurt Schlichter

Maximum Transparency, Ultimate Accountability

Maximum Transparency, Ultimate Accountability

For decades, Americans have had the same sickening feeling every April. You work. You pay taxes. Washington wastes them. And somewhere buried inside...

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Kevin Mccullough

Fights for Parents’ Rights to Protect Kids From Social Media

Fights for Parents’ Rights to Protect Kids From Social Media

The ACLJ has just filed a major amicus brief in Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton, now pending before the U.S. Court of...

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Jordan Sekulow

Is TSMC Ripping Off America?

Is TSMC Ripping Off America?

Washington has spent years talking about bringing chip manufacturing back to the United States. The argument is familiar by now. America needs secure...

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Matt Sharpsteen

Lord of the Flies: Fear, Power, and the Fragility of Civilization

Over Memorial Day weekend, I watched the new Lord of the Flies on Netflix and found myself thinking back to high school, when I first read William...

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Jay rogers

The NAACP’s Proposed Boycott Over Voting Law Changes Hurts Black Athletes

The NAACP’s Proposed Boycott Over Voting Law Changes Hurts Black Athletes

Imagine you’re selected to play for the Georgia Bulldogs football team at the University of Georgia.  You’re an incoming freshman with some...

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Anna Pingel

Big Tech Is Fueling America’s Scam Epidemic

Big Tech Is Fueling America’s Scam Epidemic

President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission released new data showing that social media platforms have become the platform through which Americans...

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Joel Thayer

The Donroe Doctrine Starts at the Grocery Store

The Donroe Doctrine Starts at the Grocery Store

Americans are learning that geopolitics can show up in the grocery aisle. Rising food prices are being blamed on the conflict with Iran and...

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Steve Bucci

Exposing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Stealth Invasion of America

Exposing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Stealth Invasion of America

As the United States gears up to celebrate its 250th anniversary, I have watched with growing alarm as the freedoms we cherish have been...

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Jonathan Feldstein

A Weird Texas Senate Race Takes Shape

A Weird Texas Senate Race Takes Shape

I’ve been involved in my share of odd U.S. Senate races ever since my first in 1992, when I worked on the reelection campaign of New York Sen....

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Scott Hogenson

The Wizard of Divorce: Flying Monkeys, False Monsters, and the Marriage Myths That Destroy Families

The Wizard of Divorce: Flying Monkeys, False Monsters, and the Marriage Myths That Destroy Families

After the year I’ve lived through, I’ve come to believe modern divorce has its own mythology—its own witches, its own spells, and most certainly...

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Robert Orlando

Noting, Not Urging

Noting, Not Urging

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep...

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Erick Erickson

The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents

The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San...

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Michael Barone

The Overweening Pomposity of the Old Guard at CBS News

The Overweening Pomposity of the Old Guard at CBS News

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans who have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss...

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Tim Graham

Why We Write

Why We Write

We’re all in this fight together for the next 250 years of American exceptionalism. During the Korean War, General Matt Ridgway prepared materials...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

The DNC Postmortem Report Skipped Over Major Voting Bloc: Christians

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The lion

The Bulwark's Tim Miller and James Talarico Discuss God's Genitalia, and Dems Wonder Why They Lose Texas

The Bulwark's Tim Miller and James Talarico Discuss God's Genitalia, and Dems Wonder Why They Lose Texas

Get access to Brad Slager's "Riffed From the Headlines," a daily VIP feature where he looks to bring accountability to the mainstream...

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Brad Slager

Spare Us the Selective Outrage

Spare Us the Selective Outrage

Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic...

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Victor Davis Hanson

New York Is Taxing Itself Into Irrelevance

New York Is Taxing Itself Into Irrelevance

If you want to understand why New York is in decline, stop listening to politicians and start watching the exits and the cold, hard numbers. The smart...

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William Flaig

The Long War of Attrition: Iran, Trump, and the Nuclear Deadlock

The Long War of Attrition: Iran, Trump, and the Nuclear Deadlock

A strange calm has descended across the Gulf. Occasional tankers again edge through the Strait of Hormuz. Diplomats shuttle between capitals. Donald...

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Struan Stevenson

Can AOC and Bernie Sell Socialism in Big Sky Country?

Can AOC and Bernie Sell Socialism in Big Sky Country?

When I think of Montana, things like freedom, self-determination, and rugged individualism come to mind, certainly not socialism. But that may soon...

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Chris Talgo

Beware Distracted Drivers This Summer

Beware Distracted Drivers This Summer

As millions of Americans hit the roadways this summer, it’s time to be especially aware of distracted drivers. According to Distraction.gov,...

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Tom Purcell

The Collapse of Late Night — and the Opportunity Ahead for Byron Allen

The Collapse of Late Night — and the Opportunity Ahead for Byron Allen

The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the...

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Armstrong Williams

One Ballot Measure Extends California's Taxing Power. Another Limits It. Stay Tuned.

One Ballot Measure Extends California's Taxing Power. Another Limits It. Stay Tuned.

Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a one-time, five percent levy on the...

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Veronique De Rugy

Advice for Ken Paxton

Advice for Ken Paxton

Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has roundly defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff primary for Cornyn's U.S....

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Laura Hollis

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Learns the Cost of Racial Identity Politics

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Learns the Cost of Racial Identity Politics

Former Democratic National Committee Chair U.S. Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) faces attacks by fellow Democrats for seeking to...

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Larry Elder, Opinion Contributor

250 and Hauling

250 and Hauling

The U.S. is just getting started. Donald Trump can look forward to a retirement playing professional sports. The latest count on his primary...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Fraudsters Run Amok

Fraudsters Run Amok

At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of...

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Cal Thomas

Prediction Markets Are Not News and Neither Is CNN

Prediction Markets Are Not News and Neither Is CNN

The World Cup is coming this summer and I’m here for it. I’m not a fan of every sport, but I am a fan of games in every sport where the stakes are...

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Derek Hunter

Savor Our Victory Over the Establishment

Savor Our Victory Over the Establishment

As we survey the smoldering wreckage left in the wake of Donzilla, who has treated the Treachery Caucus of the Republican Party like a kaiju treats...

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Kurt Schlichter

Katy Tur Dismayed That Others Have 1-A Rights; Press Commits Pratt-Falls on L.A. Mayor's Race

Katy Tur Dismayed That Others Have 1-A Rights; Press Commits Pratt-Falls on L.A. Mayor's Race

Get access to Brad Slager's "Riffed From the Headlines," a daily VIP feature where he looks to bring accountability to the mainstream...

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Brad Slager

No, Iran and China Are Not 'Winning'

No, Iran and China Are Not 'Winning'

For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to...

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Ben Shapiro

Your Grocery Bill Has a New Boss

Your Grocery Bill Has a New Boss

Last week, in the East Room of the White House, Kevin Warsh took the oath of office and became the 11th chairman of the Federal Reserve in the modern...

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Jay rogers

Strait of Hormuz Diplomacy Exposes Iran's Deepening Power Struggle

Strait of Hormuz Diplomacy Exposes Iran's Deepening Power Struggle

As Iran’s economy buckles under runaway inflation, a collapsing currency, and mounting strikes by workers, pensioners, and teachers, the ruling...

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Struan Stevenson

Trump Rejects EO on AI

Trump Rejects EO on AI

Trump Rejects EO on AI  The draft Executive Order that Trump abruptly rejected last Thursday would have expanded federal power under the guise of...

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John And Andy Schlafly

America’s First Official Day

America’s First Official Day

If you had to provide the actual date for America’s first official day, what would you list it as? Of course, one could easily argue that it was...

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Jerry Newcombe

The Supreme Court Should Strike Down the E. Jean Carroll Verdict

The Supreme Court Should Strike Down the E. Jean Carroll Verdict

When the accusation is sexual assault or rape, the rights of the accused go out the window. Prosecutors and plaintiffs' lawyers in civil cases...

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Betsy Mccaughey

The Right Way With Technology

The Right Way With Technology

If you lived in America in 1843 and wanted to communicate with someone in a distant state, you would have to send that person a written message...

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Terry Jeffrey

Mark Cuban Is Right About "Big Medicine," But Wrong About the Cure

Mark Cuban Is Right About

Mark Cuban has a new rallying cry in his campaign to fix American healthcare: "break up big medicine." He's hardly alone. Sen....

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Sally C. Pipes

It's on Us to Choose How to Use Our Freedom

It's on Us to Choose How to Use Our Freedom

Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the...

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Star Parker

Graham Platner's Comedic Potential Lost in Joke Drought

Graham Platner's Comedic Potential Lost in Joke Drought

Bonchie of RedState.com asked an interesting question on X: Has a single late-night comic told a single joke about Graham Platner? That question...

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Tim Graham

America Needs More, Not Fewer, Billionaires

America Needs More, Not Fewer, Billionaires

Billionaires are getting a bad name. "Eat the rich" is the new mantra of the Left's greed and envy lobby.  Once upon a time, we...

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Stephen Moore, Opinion Contributor

Resistance Is Not Leadership

Resistance Is Not Leadership

When political movements begin treating the President of the United States not as a constitutional office occupied by a political opponent, but as an...

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Joe Abraham

Why the Left Hates America’s Founders: Education

Why the Left Hates America’s Founders: Education

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson That...

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Mark Lewis

Pennsylvania Primary Results Unpacked: Democrats Go Far Left, While GOP Centers

Pennsylvania Primary Results Unpacked: Democrats Go Far Left, While GOP Centers

MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania -- Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very...

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Salena Zito

America Is Not Caught in a 'Thucydides Trap'!

America Is Not Caught in a 'Thucydides Trap'!

The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article "The Thucydides Trap," argued that often in...

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Victor Davis Hanson

250 Years

250 Years

This summer, the United States celebrates its 250th birthday. In 1776, few people believed this new version of self-government would last. After the...

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John Stossel

America’s Stupidity Crisis

America’s Stupidity Crisis

America has no shortage of crises. Even during this period of unparalleled prosperity, we face daunting challenges. And perhaps the biggest one is...

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Kurt Schlichter

Cornyn Never Represented the Will of His Voters

Cornyn Never Represented the Will of His Voters

Editor’s Note: Join us in the fight against the radical left today and support our reporting as President Trump continues to usher in the Golden...

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Kurt Schlichter

Don't You DARE Celebrate Our 250th Anniversary; Preventing Ebola From Entering the US Might Be Racist

Don't You DARE Celebrate Our 250th Anniversary; Preventing Ebola From Entering the US Might Be Racist

Get access to Brad Slager's "Riffed From the Headlines," a daily VIP feature where he looks to bring accountability to the mainstream...

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Brad Slager